Apple TV+ launches November 1st for $4.99 a month

In the UK, Apple TV+ is going to be available for £4.99, and the company says the service will be in more than 100 countries from day one. That's an area where Apple will have an advantage over new rivals in the space like Disney+, which so far is only expected to launch in the…

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Rivian gets $350 million from the company behind Kelley Blue Book

Rivian won't even release its first electric truck until late 2020, but that isn't stopping the company from receiving its third big funding infusion this year. Cox Automotive, the company behind Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, has made a $350 million equity investment in Rivian. The publications won't play much of a role, to be…

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Honda reveals pricing for its lovable E electric car

As the company revealed last week, the Honda E will be available in Europe (and not the US, I'm sorry to say) with a 137-mile range, making it more of a city runabout than a highway cruiser. That's down to a smallish 35.5 kWh battery, making it more competitive with EVs like the Renault Zoe…

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Forget Driving. You’ll Wish You Could Watch TV in This Car

Every concept car comes with a caveat: As the design moves to production, certain features will be dropped to reduce cost, simplify manufacturing, or kowtow to regulations. Ideas like camera-based side view “mirrors”, overly complex door handles, and huge wheels make concepts look fancy and futuristic, but rarely make it all the way to the…

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Should AI Researchers Get Special Access to Visas?

Last year the annual artificial intelligence conference NeurIPS invited 230 researchers from Africa to attend a "Black in AI" workshop in Montreal. It was a great opportunity to bring some diversity to the field of AI. Sadly, however, the Canadian government denied visas for about a third of the Africans invited to the workshop. Many…

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FDA Says Juul Can’t Claim to Be Safer Than Cigarettes

By the ninth grade, Phillip Fuhrman was already addicted to Juul, as were many of his friends. Some of them had reservations about using the e-cigarettes. Nicotine is bad for you, right? But their concerns about vaping were quickly explained away by a speaker who visited their school in April 2018 to give a presentation…

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